Hi, everybody. This is Bill Kennedy with the Arden Labs podcast, and today our very special guest is Nick Jackson. Hey, Nick.

Hey, Bill. How are you doing? And thank you so much for having me on as guest.

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you finding some time in your incredibly busy schedule

to come talk to us for an hour.

Anytime.

So our podcast is really a podcast about you.

And we've gotten to meet a few times and we've done some training and stuff together,

but we've never really got a chance to sit down and talk about our histories. And this is

going to be that, at least for me, that opportunity. I'm really excited to hear a little bit of your

background because you're so, you're one of the people, at least least in my life that I kind of put up there is

really technical and I know that I've got these technical questions you know on the system side

and things like that I got to reach out to Nick and so I really want to explore you know that part

of you too right like how did that come about? Where was your

interest there? And usually my very first question that I love to ask every guest is to kind of think

back on your first kind of memories you have working on a computer, not necessarily playing with it as

more as it became a tool or you were being productive with it, something like that.

Probably when I first started to use a computer as a tool would be music production.

So I was as a kind of a kid, you know, you play in bands and not just mucking about at home.

And I kind of realized that I could use a computer to record music.

And I kind of had played around with early sequences and things and like the Commodore

Omega and stuff like that.

But then I realized you could start using

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